Just a random shower thought.

Mosquito’s proboscis is sharp enough to penetrate your skin. So when you smack it while it is in the process of drawing your blood, isn’t there a chance of its proboscis being forcefully jammed into your skin, leading to some sort of “splinter”? Or does it somehow loses its stiffness the moment it feels the impact?

I’ve never encountered nor heard of such occurrence in my lifetime of killing those buggers, but wondering if such a thing is even possible. If such could happen, I could only imagine the risk associated with having a piece of foreign organic matter being embed in the body

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    1 year ago

    While we’re on the topic of mosquitos, is it true that if you flex your muscles while they are slurping away, that the change in pressure will cause them to explode?